Clothes hangers



June 25, 1957 1'. M. MILLHUFF I 2,797,030

CLOTHES HANGERS Filed June 20, 1955 uvmvrox. Theresa M. Millhuff nite States Pate 2,797,030 I CLOTHES iiANfiEiiS" Theresa Ml. h/Iillhuif, Renton, Wash. Application June 20, -155, Serial No. 516,634

4 Claims. (Cl. 223-85) This invention relates to clothes hangers, particularly hangers for holding garments which, when donned by the wearer, hang from the shoulders by means of straps, bands or the like. By such token the present invention pertains more especially to hangers for slips, sun suits and like garments worn by women.

One object of the present invention is to provide a clothes hanger fabricated entirely from metal, largely wire of a gauge sufficiently heavy to permanently hold bends which are imposed thereon, and which embodies in its construction a perfected means and method by which wire composing the hanger arms and wire composing the hanger hook are joined together in a unique and in expensive manner which securely holds the hook and the arms against disan'angement while at the same time permitting the hook to swivel freely about an axis lying normal to the general axis of the arms.

Other objects of the invention are to provide a clothes hanger of simple and inexpensive construction, one which is especially durable, and which is unusually efiicient in performing the particular hanging functions for which it is intended.

With the above and other more particular objects and advantages in view and which will each appear and be understood in the course of the following description and claims, the invention consists in the new method of establishing a swivel union between hanger arms and a hanger hook, and in the novel construction, adaptation and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a fragmentary side elevational view illustrating hook and arm parts composing the present invention preparatory to being swaged in a manner uniting the same in a swivel joint.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary view showing the parts after the swaging step has been performed and modified from the disclosure of Fig. 1 in that the hook component has been rotated through a half turn.

Fig. 3 is a side elevational view showing one embodiment of a hanger constructed in accordance with the teachings of the present invention, and including a fragmentary showing of several slips hung from the hanger; and

Fig. 4 is a side elevational view portraying another type of hanger, in this instance one for the support of sun suits, constructed to embody teachings of the present invention. As with Fig. 3, this view includes a fragmentary showing of a garment hung from the hanger.

According to the present invention there is provided a piece of metal tubing, hereinafter termed a muff, designated generally by the numeral 5, and having a diametrical cross-bore 6 traversing the center bore of the tube intermediate the ends thereof. By preference, such crossbore and center-bore are of corresponding size, thus to permit strands of wire which are inserted through the cross-bore and from opposite ends into the center-bore to ice 2. be each drawn from stock of the same gauge. The stock used is fairlyheavyso as to be quite stiff. Considered'in more particularity there' are three such strands of wire, one of'which, denoted generally by 7, performs the function of a hook, and the others of which, denoted generally by8 and-9, perform the function of hanger arms;

The strand 7 presents a bill '10 and has a straight shank 11 which fits in and projects through the cross-bore. The fit is suchas to allow relative rotation. Exposed portions of this shank, at opposite sides of the muff, are each subjected to swaging pressure so asto indent the material top and bottom and by;such indentation responsively belly the sideedges laterally thelnodules 12 which are thus fornred actingi-as stopsp-recluding-.endwise displacement of the shank from the muff. A swaging step is similarly performed upon the muff at opposite sides of the journaled shank 11 so as to crimp the muff hard upon and rigidly secure the root ends of the strands 8 and 9 socketed therein, the indentations provided by this swaging step being designated by 13.

It is a feature of the invention that within the length of the wire composing the arms there is imposed upon the arm a doubling bend or bends to provide one or more loops which project upwardly from the parent strand in a plane coinciding with the plane occupied by the shank of the hook. In the instance of the embodiment shown in Fig. 3 there are three such loops in each strand, spaced apart at intervals of the length, and the purpose of these multiple loops will be apparent from an inspection of the drawings. Denoted by l4, l5 and 16 for the one strand and by 17, 18 and 19 for the other strand, the loops work in sets to accommodate the two straps S of i8. respective slip U. It will be apparent that the slips supported by the hanger can be removed individually without disturbing the other slips. In the embodiment shown in Fig. 4, a single loop, as 20 and 21, is provided at the extreme end of each strand, and as a complement to this loop each strand has a downturned bend adjacent the root end. A straight section, as 22 and 23, offset below the horizontal plane occupied by the socketed root end of the strand lies between the related terminal loop and a vertical leg, as 24 and 25, formed by the inner bend. In the use of this last-described hanger embodiment, each straight section accommodates one of the two wide straps h which characterize a womans sun suit y.

It is thought that the hangers of the present invention and their application will have been clearly understood from the foregoing detailed description of the illustrated embodiments. It is apparent that changes can be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention and it is accordingly my intention that no limitations be implied and that the hereto annexed claims be given the broadest interpretation to which the employed language admits.

What I claim, is:

1. In a garment hanger, a mufi comprised of a length of tubular stock having a diametrical cross-bore traversing the center-bore of the tube intermediate the ends, a hook drawn from Wire stock of a gauge approximating the diameter of the cross-bore and presenting a relatively straight shank received for swivel movement through said cross-bore and dividing the center-bore into a respective socket at each end of the muff, and wire sections drawn from stock of a gauge corresponding to the diameter of the center-bore fitted by their inner ends in said sockets and projecting outwardly in opposite directions from the mufi to form clothes-hanging arms for the hanger, said shank of the hook being swaged above and below the mufl.

to produce bellied nodules holding the shank against endends of the muff being swaged to crimp the muff hard upon the socketed ends of the clothes-hanging arms for securing said ends within the mufi.

2. In a garment hanger, a muff comprised of a length of tubular stock having a diametrical cross-bore traversing the center-bore of the tube intermediate the ends, a hook drawn from wire stock of a gauge approximating the diameter of the cross-bore and presenting a relatively straight shank received for swivel movement through said cross-bore and dividing the center-bore into a respective socket at each end of the muff, and wire sections drawn from stock of a gauge corresponding to the diameter of the'center-bore fitted by their inner ends in said sockets and projecting outwardly in opposite directions from the mufi to form clothes-hanging arms for the hanger, said shank of the hook being swaged above and below the mufi to produce bellied nodules holding the shank against endwise displacement from the cross-bore while permitting free swiveling of the shank within said cross-bore, means being provided for securing the socketed ends of the arms within the muff.

3. A garment hanger according to claim 2 in which each of said arms has Within its length an upturned loop formed by doubling the wire upon itself.

4. A garment hanger according to claim 2 in which each of said arms is provided with a plurality of upturned loops spaced equidistantly from one another and each formed by doubling the wire upon itself.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 401,943 Gowen Apr. 23, 1889 608,266 ONeill Aug. 2, 1898 2,354,099 Bess July 18, 1944 2,557,627 Baril June 19, 1951 

